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lazaretto

NOUN
  1. a small locker at the stern of a boat or between decks of a ship
  2. hospital for persons with infectious diseases (especially leprosy)

How To Use lazaretto In A Sentence

  • There is a very large lazaretto, which is said to be one of the best managed in the world. Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta
  • The public was even admitted by a sort of lazaretto entrance on the street. Les Miserables
  • Egypt, with a mother to bewail his loss, another we buried in the dismal lazaretto cemetery. Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo
  • I have now come far enough to meet you on a common ground of fact; and I tell you that, to a mind not prejudiced by jealousy, all the reforms of the lazaretto, and even those which he most vigorously opposed, are properly the work of Damien. Lay Morals
  • * A lazaretto was usually a pest-house for smallpox and other contagious diseases, but here is used for quarantine. but Neilson happily was the very officer, from whom we should have had our certificate, so having the seal of office in his trunk, * Journal of a Lady of Quality; Being the Narrative of a Journey from Scotland to the West Indies, North Carolina, and Portugal, in the Years 1774 to 1776
  • Inside the towns, quarantine went into effect, with the sick isolated in prisonlike infirmaries called lazarettos.
  • When I visited the lazaretto, Damien was already in his resting grave. Lay Morals
  • He later turned his attention to the problems of the lazarettos of the East.
  • In 1785 the reformer turned his attention to plague prevention, examining lazarettos in France, Italy and Turkey - and deliberately experiencing quarantine in Venice.
  • The lazaretto is a wretched building, with a flagstaff and two houses projecting on the two sides. The Caravan Route between Egypt and Syria
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